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General Package for Meta-Analysis

v8.3-0 · Apr 2, 2026 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

User-friendly general package providing standard methods for meta-analysis and supporting Schwarzer, Carpenter, and Rücker <DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-21416-0>, "Meta-Analysis with R" (2015): - common effect and random effects meta-analysis; - several plots (forest, funnel, Galbraith / radial, L'Abbe, Baujat, bubble); - three-level meta-analysis model; - generalised linear mixed model; - logistic regression with penalised likelihood for rare events; - Hartung-Knapp method for random effects model; - Kenward-Roger method for random effects model; - prediction interval and density of the prediction distribution; - expected proportion of comparable studies with clinically important benefit or harm; - statistical tests for funnel plot asymmetry; - trim-and-fill method to evaluate bias in meta-analysis; - meta-regression; - cumulative meta-analysis and leave-one-out meta-analysis; - import data from 'RevMan 5'; - produce forest plot summarising several (subgroup) meta-analyses.

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies metabook metadat metafor ggplot2 lme4 CompQuadForm xml2 readr dplyr magrittr purrr stringr rlang tibble scales crossnma diagmeta metarep metasens miniMeta mtrank netmeta nmarank AID CalibrationCurves EvidenceSynthesis MultiPhen NMAforest NMAoutlier R4HCR +18 more reverse deps meta

Version History

updated 8.3-0 ← 8.2-1 diff Apr 2, 2026
new 8.2-1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 8.2-1 ← 8.2-0 diff Aug 31, 2025
updated 8.2-0 ← 8.1-0 diff Jul 22, 2025
updated 8.1-0 ← 8.0-2 diff May 1, 2025
updated 8.0-2 ← 8.0-1 diff Jan 20, 2025
updated 8.0-1 ← 7.0-0 diff Oct 30, 2024
updated 7.0-0 ← 6.5-0 diff Jan 11, 2024
updated 6.5-0 ← 6.2-1 diff Jun 6, 2023
updated 6.2-1 ← 6.2-0 diff Feb 27, 2023
updated 6.2-0 ← 6.1-0 diff Feb 13, 2023
updated 6.1-0 ← 6.0-0 diff Dec 20, 2022
updated 6.0-0 ← 5.5-0 diff Sep 16, 2022
updated 5.5-0 ← 5.2-0 diff Jul 10, 2022
updated 5.2-0 ← 5.1-1 diff Feb 4, 2022
updated 5.1-1 ← 5.1-0 diff Dec 2, 2021
updated 5.1-0 ← 5.0-1 diff Nov 16, 2021
updated 5.0-1 ← 5.0-0 diff Oct 19, 2021
updated 5.0-0 ← 4.19-2 diff Oct 10, 2021
updated 4.19-2 ← 4.19-1 diff Sep 29, 2021